China Cottage

Food is great!!!! FRESH! Service is stellar. Ambiance is great!!! Now.... The only area of opportunity is to get a fountain beverage machine. Cans of Coke is NOT the ticket !!!

Food has always been fantastic as well as the serving staff. Well that seems to have ended with our last visit. The first guy we saw as we walked in had on jeans and a T shirt and seemed like he wished he was somewhere else. A woman came up and seated us. Our waitress came but couldn't speak English. She was Indian. Hmm. She had to go get someone, another Indian lady to translate. We ordered and both of our food was horrendous. I ordered the green pepper steak but it was this long piece of fat and mostly vegetables. It was also lukewarm warm. I looked into the kitchen and not one Asian person back there but Hispanic men. I guess they must have sold their business. I won't be back and will never recommend this place ever again. Sad.

Ambiance is great! It's a very stylish and artsy restaurant. Usually service is pretty slow. Food is always tasty and served hot, wait staff is usually very friendly. Last visit yesterday however, there was a wedding party in the house. Our host walked us past several quieter, much less crowded sections and decided to seat us right next to the boisterous wedding crowd. They were raucous and obnoxious. We couldn't hear ourselves think. We couldn't hear each other talk. We could barely hear the waitress who took our orders. Since we were not part of the wedding group we did not understand why we were seated in the already super crowded, very noisy section of the restaurant when there were plenty of other seats available. When our food arrived, we immediately got the check, and some boxes and went home to eat in peace. The wedding group was very rude, and in our opinion it was also pretty rude of the host to seat us in with them. Because of this recent negative dining experience, I'm docking a star off my rating.

Kung Pao ShrimpGiven several choices, my wife suggests a visit to China Cottage.China Cottage in Centerville is arguably the most interesting and romantic Chinese restaurant of 70+ Greater Dayton Metropolitan area restaurants. China Cottage in Centerville is located in a former steak house property. China Cottage has been transformed into a Chinese restaurant which resembled a restaurant during our recent visit to Shanghai, China.Predictably, my wife requires some time to review the very extensive menu, and this is always a neat indicator.In the meantime, we order China Cottage's version of Golden Calamari.China Cottage original's restaurant is in Kettering, and this small local chain has restaurants in Trotwood, Kettering, Springboro, and Centerville. We do not like that China Cottage has NO lunch menu ( since covid.)My Kung Pao Shrimp plate includes Large shrimp, napa, carrots, onions and celery sautéed in spicy Kung Pao sauce with peanuts.My wife selected Triple Delight: Shrimp, scallops, chicken breast, broccoli, napa, carrots, celery, snow peas and mushrooms sautéed in brown sauce.Our son decided on Hunan Chicken: Sliced chicken breast, broccoli, mushrooms, baby corn and carrots sautéed in spicy Hunan sauce.The ambience of China Cottage is enhanced with window seating.The service, Christina, at China Cottage is excellent.

Awesome food for 40 years ! Great service and beautiful food! Would highly recommend.

Love the bean curd bok choy soup. Just the ticket when I'm feeling "off", whether that's physically punky or emotionally discouraged. A gentle "mmmmm... " of appreciation almost always ensues after that first spoonful. So healing. So good.

The BEST China cottage in Ohio!!! Every time I order a takeout there the owner and manager is always so kind and friendly. Their food is always amazing and it's so cool that they have a huge fish tank where their guests could look.

Nice place. Food is ok. But where they lose it is in cleanliness. Our table was dirty/sticky. My chair was dirty/sticky. We didn't say anything but the woman who was seated at the etable next to us spoke up right away and had the hostess come and wipe down her sticky table. Menus had sticky gross fingerprints on numerous pages. Worst thig was the lack of paper towels in the restroom. They were not just out of them, they just don't provide them; they only have the blow dryer. So, you can wash your hands in there, but then you have to grab the pull handle to get out of the restroom and who knows what snot-soaked fingers had just been on that pull handle.We might go back if we hear they have cleaned things up and added paper towels to the restrooms.

Food was horrible and no service heard lotta good things but ouch! Not what I expected. Sorry but was not good .

The past few times I've dined there, the service was terrible, it's like they just don't care. Then, last night I called at 9:20 to place a takeout order...they close at 10:00. I was told the kitchen was already closed (40 minutes prior to closing ). As I was in the middle of asking a question about how late the kitchen typically stays open, the lady literally hung up on me! The situation was exacerbated for me because I was trying to find egg drop soup for my niece who is recovering from food poisoning and the only thing she wanted was egg drop soup. I went to Kroger to get ingredients and made the soup for her. I'm done with China Cottage